Meta Introduces New AI Features Across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp
Unveiling the Future, One Innovation at a Time!
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Meta AI Updates: What's Cookin'?
Meta has announced over 20 new ways to enhance user experiences across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. These improvements involve generative AI and span various aspects like search, social discovery, ads, business messaging, and more. Meta AI, the virtual assistant, has been upgraded to provide more detailed responses on mobile, accurate search result summaries, and increased responsiveness to a broader range of queries.
Some Features and Capabilities:
Reimagine with Meta AI: A feature on Messenger and Instagram that allows users to generate images collaboratively in group chats.
Reels in Meta AI: Reels, a feature for discovering new content, is being rolled out in Meta AI chats, providing a more visual and experiential way to interact with AI-generated content.
Enhancements on Facebook: Meta AI is used on Facebook for various tasks, such as helping users create birthday greetings, edit Feed posts, draft introductions for Facebook Dating profiles, and set up new Groups. Additionally, AI is being tested for image conversion, improved search capabilities, and surfacing relevant information in Groups and Marketplace.
Google Gemini AI: Three's a Party!
Google has unveiled its latest language model, Gemini, available in three sizes: Nano, Pro, and Ultra. Gemini is designed to understand and operate across various types of information, including text, code, audio, images, and video. Gemini Nano is optimized for mobile devices like Pixel 8, performing tasks seamlessly even offline. Gemini Pro powers Google AI services and serves as the foundation for the AI chatbot, Bard. Gemini Ultra, the most powerful variant, excels at complex tasks and is suitable for data centers and enterprise applications. It's expected to be released after the current testing phase. Gemini, starting with Nano, is accessible on Pixel 8 Pro.
Vast Data's $118M Jackpot: Data Storage Extravaganza!
Vast Data, a New York-based startup providing a scale-out, unstructured data storage solution for AI workloads, has secured $118 million in a Series E round led by Fidelity Ventures. This investment brings Vast's total raised to $381 million and values the company at $9.1 billion post-money. Vast Data's platform unifies storage, database, and compute engine services, catering to AI and GPU-accelerated workloads across data centers and clouds. The funding will be used to expand its business reach, particularly in the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Europe. Vast Data's annual recurring revenue is reported to be $200 million, with a growth rate of 3.3x year over year.
Sarvam AI Raises $41 Million: Making It Rain in India!
Indian AI startup Sarvam AI has raised $41 million in Seed and Series A financing rounds, just five months after coming out of stealth mode. Sarvam AI is focused on developing large language models (LLMs) that support Indian languages. It is also building a platform that enables businesses to work with LLMs and creating LLMs that use voice as the default interface in India. The startup plans to make its first model public in the coming weeks. The funding was led by Lightspeed in the Series A round, and Lightspeed and Peak XV Partners in the Seed round, with participation from Khosla Ventures.
Pimento's Visual Mood Boards: Creative Genius Unleashed!
French startup Pimento is leveraging generative AI for the initial stages of the creative process. The platform focuses on ideation, brainstorming, and moodboarding for creative teams working on projects such as brand redesigns, ad campaigns, video games, and animation movies. Pimento allows users to compile reference documents with images, text, and colors, serving as inspiration and guidelines for the project. The AI-powered tool aims to expedite the exploration of different directions in the creative process.
Google Cloud TPU V5P: AI Accelerator Power Play!
Google has introduced its Cloud TPU v5p, the latest version of its Cloud TPU (Tensor Processing Unit), alongside the launch of its new Gemini large language model (LLM). The TPU v5p is an upgrade to the TPU v5e, featuring a 2x improvement in FLOPS (floating-point operations per second) and a 3x improvement in high-bandwidth memory. A v5p pod comprises 8,960 chips and is equipped with Google's fastest interconnect, boasting up to 4,800 Gbps per chip. Google claims that the TPU v5p can train large language models like GPT3-175B 2.8 times faster than the previous TPU v4, offering improved cost-effectiveness.
Closing Thoughts:
There you have it,! Your lowdown on today's AI highlights Meta AI updates, Google's Gemini revelation, Vast Data's storage saga, Sarvam AI's Indian ascent, Pimento's creative genius, and Google Cloud TPU V5P's power play, the AI odyssey continues! Subscribe now for exclusive insights into the future of artificial intelligence. As you navigate the rest of your day, keep the AI buzz alive, stay curious, and remember—the tech world is your playground! Until our next briefing, this is your AI storyteller, signing off. 🌐👋🤖
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